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his command during his physical waking life, and
during sleep the heaven-world will be open before
him—for the consciousness of a man when away
from his physical body is always one stage higher
than it is while he is still burdened with the house
of flesh.

III. Anagami. The Anagamin (he who does
not return) is so called because, having reached this
stage, he ought to be able to attain the next one in
the life he is then living. He enjoys, while moving
through the round of his daily work, all the splen-
did possibilities of progress given by the full
possession of the priceless faculties of the heaven-
world, and when he leaves his physical vehicle
at night he enters once more into the wonder-
fully-widened consciousness that belongs to the
buddhL In this step he finally throws aside any
lingering remains of the two fetters of

4. Kamaraga—attachment to the enjoyment
of sensation, typified by earthly love, and

5. Patigha—all possibility of anger or hatred.

The student who has cast off these fetters can no
longer be swayed by the influence of his senses
either in the direction of love or hatred, and is free
from either attachment to or impatience of physical
plane conditions.

Here again we must guard against a possible
misconception—one with which we frequently meet.